Dr. Bradley's Bad Medicine

By

Martin Feldstein

Updated Oct. 19, 1999 12:01 a.m. ET

Bill Bradley is riding high in opinion polls, largely on the widespread perception that he is a man of independent mind and, as he put it, "big ideas." But until recently the substance of those ideas has not been known.

Now, however, Mr. Bradley has begun to lay out his plans, starting with a detailed health-care plan that seeks to reduce the number of Americans without health insurance. Alas, Mr. Bradley's plan suffers from many of the same defects as Hillary Clinton's ill-fated scheme: It would require a...